Thanks for the comments, It’s good to know there’s so many others that are into the venue, ’cause it’s not big where I’m located. Since the pics, I’ve lowered and pulled the headlight back a bit and put on a smaller Bates style taillight, subtle changes, but I think it looks a little better, never liked the huge taillight I had on it.
I recently picked up another XS and an SR, so now I can have one to work on without flipping out about having it ridable the next day.
Big thanks to everyone that posts tech info and pictures, couldn’t have done it without the forums and things.
Prat, it’s the original disc off a ’74, I just added the holes.

I’m glad to see this bike on here! I saw it outside of Joyride bicycles one day and took a picture of it with my phone. It has inspired my sons and I to build an xs650 of our own. We recently got a bike and began tearing it down. Where did you get the seat, and how did you lower the bike?

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